Volume 1, Issue 2

The floral essential oil composition of Albizia julibrissin growing in Northern Alabama

 

Author(s): Hanjing Zhang, William N. Setzer

Abstract: The floral essential oil of Albizia julibrissin, “silktree”, growing in Huntsville, Alabama, was obtained by hydrodistillation and analyzed by gas chromatography – mass spectrometry.  The oil was dominated by palmitic acid (23.3%), trans-linalool oxide (both furanoid and pyranoid forms, 6.6% and 7.0%, respectively), pentacosane (7.2%), methyl salicylate (6.2%), eugenol (6.1%), and 1-octanol (5.2%).

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